Administration – Revenue Divisions – Description of a Township – Its Privileges
– Government of a Township by one Head – Duties of a Headman – Village Establishment; the Accountant,
Watchman, &c. – Government by a Village Community – Classes of Inhabitants – Village Landholders
– Permanent Tenants – Temporary Tenants – Hired Labourers – Shopkeepers, &c. –
Probable Origin and Decline of Village Communities – Public Land Revenue – Property in the Soil –
Other Branches of the Revenue – Alienations – Lands alienated for military Service – Lands for
military Service among the Rajputs – Lands for Services not military – Lands held free of Service –
Tributary and other dependent Territories – Zemindars, what – Changes in War and Policy

Changes since Menu – The Puranas – Present Objects of Worship – Siva – Devi or
Bhawani – Vishnu and his Incarnations – Rama – Crishna – Other Gods – Good and bad Spirits
– Local Gods – General Character of the Hindu Religion – Future State – Moral Effects –
Sects – New Ritual – Ascendancy of the Monastic Orders – Religion of the Baudhas and Jainas –
Comparative Antiquity of those Religions and that of Brama

Mythological Periods – Impossibility of fixing early Dates, even by Conjecture – Solar and
lunar Races – Materials subsequent to the War of the “Maha Bharat” – Kings of Magada –
Chandragupta contemporary with Seleucus, and Asoca with Antiochus – Date of Nanda’s Reign – Date of
the Death of Budha – Probable Date of the “Maha Bharat” – Dates after Chandragupta –
Coincidence with Chinese Annals – Obscurity after AD 436 – Eras of Vicramaditya and Salivahana

External Commerce – Trade from the West Coast – Coasting Trade – Trade from the East
Coast – Hindu Settlements in Java and other eastern Islands – Trade in Times subsequent to the Greeks
– Exports in ancient Times – Imports – Inland Trade

India bounded on the West by the Indus – Indians to the West of that River – Greek
Descriptions of India – Authorities for those Descriptions – Division into Classes – Sanyassis –
Sudras – Absence of Slavery – Number and Extent of the different States – Manners and Customs –
Favourable Opinion entertained by the Greeks of the Indian Character